Search results for: Sukjoon Yoon
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South Korea’s Foreign Policy in Changing Times: Reversing Course?
Abstract: The tragedy currently unfolding in Ukraine may be a symptom of new dynamics in global geopolitics. The changing balance of power epitomized by the rise of China...
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What to Make of Kim Yo Jong’s Verbal Attack of South Korea’s Defense Minister
...new South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has explicitly taken a hawkish stance on North Korea and showed more conservative responses to the North’s missile tests. Thus Seoul’s Defense Ministry is...
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1325 NAPs Beyond East and West: Institutionalizing the WPS Agenda in Sweden and South Korea
Abstract This brief is the latest outcome of a collaboration between the Institute for Security and Development Policy’s (ISDP) Korea Center and Korean Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The...
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North Korea Is Preparing to Confront the US in 2022
...and possibly even nuclear tests in response to U.S. sanctions, the upcoming South Korea-U.S. joint military exercises, and the potential victory of South Korean main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol...
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Not a Sovereignty Issue: Understanding the Transition of Military Operational Control between the United States and South Korea
...of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ROK Minister of National Defense Yoon Kwang Ung agreed that wartime OPCON of ROK forces under a U.S.-led command would be handed over sometime between...
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Sustaining an International Coalition of the Willing: Lessons from Japan’s and South Korea’s Response to Putin’s War in Ukraine…nuclear-armed great power. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s re-invented “Global Korea” concept reorients Seoul’s strategic direction to align more closely with the U.S.-ROK Alliance and emphasizes a foreign policy…
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Japan-ROK: Old Grievances under New Leadership…runners are Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, and Yoon Seok-youl, the candidate for the conservative People Power Party. The former is expected to stay the…
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The U.S.-Japan-ROK Summit at Camp David: Strengthening Trilateral Security Cooperation…The United States (U.S.) President Joe Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Fumio Kishida and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol at his Camp David retreat…
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As G7 Leaders want Beijing to Abide by “International Rules,” China wants the West to Abandon G7…the new South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s “revolutionary” rapprochement between Seoul and Tokyo. While the success of the U.S. strategy to forge security alliances among its traditional allies in the…
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Friends, Whether They Like It or Not: U.S.-ROK-Japan…likely to be incoherent and insufficient compared to standardized procedures and mechanisms for cooperation between all three countries. Japan-Korea Relations The recent trilateral meeting between Prime Minister Kishida, President Yoon,…